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SA Travel Diaries: A Memoir of My Visit to the Aguada Fort Goa— Snippets straight out of the journal of Rakshanda Thakur, SA Volunteer

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                                              Tuesday, 27 October, 2015 Dear Diary, I am in Goa, at last (which explains the absence on the writing front!) At Aguada Fort We reached Goa on the 25th and I've been busy shopping and exploring the beaches, it's not a historical trip so that is what we do most of the time. Today, though, Aguada Fort was on the itinerary and I was all excited and thrilled about it, of course,  because of my unending love for historic places. The ulterior motive though, is because it is my first week volunteering for Speaking Archaeologically and  I am the only one, to have taken an exemption from the very first task because of the trip. I felt awful, but then my task in charge, Shriya Gautam, gave me a list of places I could gather information about, for SA and make up for the exemption.  Aguada Fort happened to be o...